This article examines Slavoj Žižek’s overall approach to the critique of ideology. His Hegelian-Lacanian ideology criticism is addressed by looking at historical shift from problem post-ideology that post-Truth. In process, this explains simply brand criticism.

This paper highlights the clinical signs of suicidal risk behaviour assessing a Rorschach protocol. A 21-year-old female with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and a history of suicide attempt, is assessed upon an accurate clinical and personality evaluation with the Rorschach projective method. Authors discuss by a clinical and psychoanalytical perspective the role of projec...

used in a controversial way. There is a very useful introductory chapter which gives some cautionary advice on pitfalls to be avoided in psychoanalytical literature, such as the fallacy of 'explanation by labelling'. The ideas of other related authors, apart from actual psychoanalysts, are also included (but not Harry Stack Sullivan). Therefore, it might have been useful to give a brief index o...

In this paper we make a brief historical review of the hypothesis concerning the etiology of Tourette's syndrome (TS), focusing on varying trends over time: at first, its presumed relation to witchcraft and demonic possessions, followed by the psychoanalytical theory, which attributed TS to a masturbatory equivalent. Then, progressing to modern time, to the immunological theory and finally the ...

This paper looks briefly at the configuration of spatio-temporality and subjectivity in James Joyce’s short story ‘Araby’ from thematic perspective courtly love chivalric romance through Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept chronotope elements Heideggerian phenomenology Lacanian psychoanalysis.

This paper draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, to introduce employability as a cultural fantasy that organizes identity around the desire to shape, exploit and ultimately profit from an employable self. Specifically, the paper shows how individuals seek to overcome their subjective and material alienation by maximizing their self-exploitation through constantly enhancing their employability. This...

Prior to the addressing the content of this book, it is worthwhile to consider the place of such a work. After all, a self-styled book on the technique of Lacanian psychoanalysis is something of an oddity. Fink himself notes in his afterword, ‘English-speaking analysts reputedly love to talk about technique whereas Frenchspeaking analysts avoid it like the plague’ (p. 275). If there is some tru...